Kenzai Reiki

2007-07-17T03:15:00.000-07:00

Is flooding inevitable?

Recent arial filming of flooded areas highlighted the need for trees and greenspace.
Housing estates with concreted paths and gardens meant that excess of rainwater had nowhere to drain into...

Building on greenspace without leaving sufficient earth, shrubbery and trees to take care of the water is bound to lead to flooding.

Trees draw water up through their roots and release it slowly into the atmosphere, thisway, trees, especially enmasse as in woodlands and forests are able to slow down the movement of water around the planet.

Small trees in small gardens and bigger trees in larger gardens are an asset.

Advice for dealing with future flooding:
Scientists are telling us that rainfall will increase....
Here is a few point plan to help you ensure that you can cope, especially if you live in a town where the planners have forgotten to preserve greenspace and trees:

1. Build a shed on stilts in the garden so that you can climb into it when the water levels rise.

2. Keep a rowing boat ready with some food supplies easily available to grab ready for the floods.

3. Move your kitchen upstairs, then at least your appliances will not be damaged by the flooding and you can recover quicker.

4. Make sure your garden is not concreted or paved over so that water can drain somewhere...have trees at the bottom of the garden to draw the water off.

or...

to avoid all this; write to your MP and local planning office and ask them to start putting trees and greenspace back into the English landscape and to preserve the trees, woodlands, forests and greenspace already here.
http://www.parliament.uk/

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http://celticreiki.mysite.orange.co.uk

2007-05-28T10:01:00.000-07:00

I've recently learned Celtic Reiki to add the knowledge to my understanding of Earth, Reiki and trees. I have often taken Reiki 2 and Reiki Master students out to beautiful greenspaces around Bedfordshire to receive their Attunements. During these outings, I encourage students to connect to Earth and Tree energy and they experience the pull of Earthlight, Tree connection and the magnetic forces that are so important to our own bodies healing.

During a recent Masters, I was guided to take the student to a local and beautiful place I've never visited before and was delighted to find it alive with ancient beech trees. Sitting on a root and listening to the tree, all I could think about was the Celtic Reiki and how urgent it seems to reconnect people to trees and Earth. I had up until that point, no intention of teaching Celtic Reiki formally, however, the connection with that great beech changed my mind and I can see all sorts of positive movements coming from teaching Celtic Reiki and Attuning Folk to it's energy.

The link for more info on Celtic Reiki is on the left.

2006-06-26T01:07:00.000-07:00

I took this photo a few years ago (on a November the 5th) in Leagrave Woods, which are Marsh woods at the source of the River Lea in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. The old name of Luton was Lygetun, a name derived from the ancient Celt name Lug's Town. Celtic Legend had it that Lug (or Lyg) the Celtic God of Light used to come to drink in the river.

I didn't know of the ancient legend til recently and had, since taking the photo, spent time meditating in the woods to try to find the significance of the phenomena in the photo; one of the most prominet anomalies being the king's head in the purple light patch in the centre. In meditation I was given the impression that the light came down in the river near those woods.
Being told about the legend recently really did it for me...it means the guidance I received and my interpretations of that guidance during the mediations I did was spot on.
I haven't been able to take photos with the same phenomena in since that day, although there has been the occassion success.
I now think that November 5th was a major date in the Celtic Calendar to celebrate Light and that firelighting on that day are significant, not of Guy Fawkes, but of a much older tradition.

2004-10-29T16:57:00.000-07:00

So I spent half term working on a let go of anger group...it came to me because of the ache in my side, caused by being a tad or two overweight and being in the region of the liver...and area where anger is said to reside. So I started a group to encourage letting go of anger, and got a bit confident so then I started a group for the TREES...

This has been a great way of bringing together down to earth and spiritual stuff about trees and has been so much fun.

Of course, I haven't got much done...but saving the world takes a bit of time, lifting the awareness and raising consciousness has to start somewhere...and once enough people take the possibilities on board, then others follow, it all just has to start somewhere.

So this half-term, when no-one was looking, the future of the planet perked up a bit!

2004-08-18T16:26:00.000-07:00

In the Midst of The Sea of all that Is...

Just for today,
I'm going to just be me,
Accept yesterdays gone and tomorrow will be,
whatever it will be,
and just for today
I'm not going to worry...
I'm going to sit quietly
in the midst of the sea of all that is
and be free
of any responsibility
to be anything other than me.

Today I accept that everyone else is where they want to be,
The way they look at life is what they choose to see,
Today I'm just me
and I accept that the beauty that surrounds me,
is there because it wants to be,
not for me, or because of me,
but just because it is where it wants to be,
the beauty I'm in the midst of
is what I choose to see.

I accept that all that is today
is as it is,
and I have no need to heal it,
teach it or try to change it,
because it is what it chooses to be...
and today I just choose to be me.
And most of all, today,
I accept the human way,
that they are they
and they are where they wish to be
and I release myself from any need
to try to change them or teach them
because I wish they were more like me.

18th Aug 2004. W.D.B.

2004-06-12T16:58:00.000-07:00

Took a Reiki Student to connect with tree energy today and have her Attunement in the woods at the top of the ancient hills.
On the way we connected with trees and bushes in hedgerows, the path is on a leyline so it's easy to 'feel' the energy for students when I get them to walk along with their eyes closed.
The wild roses were in flower and when connecting to flowers it's lovely to get Reiki flowing then start to feel Reiki flowing from the heart chakra to the flower and exchanging with the blossom. The dog rose connection was beautiful, I felt warmth spread from my chest outwards and my student saw beautiful colours within.

The words to describe the dog rose energy would be: gentleness with strength...determination with grace.

We went into the Beech Woods for the Attunement, I'm sure the trees have moved since the last time I was there! For a change, I connected with a tree by putting my hands on the trunk, after a few seconds, I felt movement under my palms. Then I leaned my head on the tree so my third eye was resting on the trunk, now really as I'd cut light out by doing this, I shouldn't have been able to see the beautiful colours that filled my third eye...

The words to describe the Beech...accept and move on, be free for new experience ... trying something new can be very enjoyable.

2004-06-08T16:12:00.000-07:00

A beautiful visualisation:
Be comfortable, sitting or lying. Get an impression that you are sitting in the middle of a daisy, little white petals all around you, and you're sitting on the ready made little cushion in the centre (any other flower will do, it's up to you).

>If you find visualisation difficult get little impressions, see just one petal near your foot, for instance. Or get an impression of the way your sitting, a feeling that you're sitting on something...feeling an impression means you are aware in yourself that the visualisation is 'happening' but can't see the pictures in your mind very well ...that's fine, different people connect or feel differently. I tend to feel the impression rather that see it, so nowadays I don't try to see anything, and the vague impressions are stronger than when I used to try to 'see'.<

Back to the Daisy...
Don't try to rush anything, there's a tendancy to think that if you don't hurry you'll lose the visualisation. You won't and you can always bring it back...
So take time to get an impression of each petal of your flower, get an impression of the colour, of size.
Now, 'look' out to beyond the flower, is it surrounded by grass, other flowers, can you sense the leaves?
Think now of the elements, Earth, the daisy is of this element, think down through the roots of the flower.
Think next of water, how does the flower get watered, think of the dew fall, get an impression of water around your flower, you could even imagine a pond near the daisy.. if fish come to mind, they represent the element of water.
Next element is Fire, where you are sitting on your flower, is the sun shining, try to get an impression of the warmth of the sun, of light all around, perhaps reflecting of the dewdrops.
Finally, listen for the birds singing, or imagine or get an impression there is a breeze blowing...Air. Birds represent the element of Air.

You may get an impression of animals, too, enjoy these and make a mental note of the animals, if you enjoy visualising, then in future you may find the same animals visit regularly, these are likely to be 'strengths' (power animals or totems) around you to help you as you walk your life path at this time.

Now...A rainbow is spiralling down now towards you, each colour radiant...Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Turquoise, Indigo, Violet.
It's ok to 'feel' or just get vague impressions of each colour.
As the rainbow comes over you, the light will shower over and around you and the flower.

Now the rainbow is forming a stairway for you to climb...

2004-05-18T15:58:00.000-07:00

Came out to myself yesterday, as a happy hetero I'd always wondered what all the fuss was about...then I realised how hard it is to admit to being something which feels alien to oneself. Well yesterday I finally decided I'm a New Ager and proud of it.
Then today, I received the coincidental confirmation that it was the right thing to do in the form of an Open University article about modern religion...recognising the New Age or New spiritual movement.
Research has shown that those drawn to the 'Path' have three things in common, in any order

Eastern Religious philosophies are favoured.
They realise the importance of taking responsibility for their own Spiritual Path.
They begin to reconnect to Earth, often through Native American Understanding or Paganism.

Since starting to teach Reiki in 1997, I've noticed this 'trend' frequently, and can bear it out from personal experience. Reiki is a whole healing, and life becomes a healing experience with people and situations teaching the 'student' about themselves...each lesson leads to an understanding of the students own attitudes being the reason for their suffering ultimately.

The eight fold path of Buddhism opens out towards the students without them needing any knowledge of it.

Native Americans and other indigenous peoples have always recognised nature as a part of the Spirit, and seeing particular animals, for instance, is seen as guidance from the Great Spirit.
Also the healing Energies of plants, trees and animals are recognised, and the thought that all living things are a movement of the Great Spirit or Universal Life-force becomes something to contemplate...in fact contemplation becomes a way of life, which, as time and lessons move on, becomes increasingly aligned, so the student is living from the heart instead of conforming to the head strong social norms.

All this may be looked on as new age and unstructured, but that's fine because bringing down structures or undoing blocks is part of healing!
So now it's official for me, I've realised new agism is a respectable path to be proud of, and the Open University has confirmed it.

2004-05-12T17:05:00.000-07:00

Privileged to sight a Heron tonight. When on a guided path, the sight of a Heron, sitting quietly, wisely, majesticly & mysteriously, contemplating life by a stream, is a great sign...to grab opportunities when they arrive and do one's own thing. Heron's are about uniqueness and not conforming to what is expected by the 'norms'!

2004-04-28T16:06:00.000-07:00

The method of healing all that are one by healing one with the OM symbol.

Be comfortable, lying, sitting or standing…anywhere is okay…
Visualise OM surrounding you…by drawing a large OM sign in each of the seven directions around you…

The easiest way to do this is to face the direction the Sun rises in, East, and draw an OM symbol…
· In front of you (East)
· To the right of you (South)
· Behind you (West)
· To the left of you (North)
· Above your head
· Below your feet
· Within yourself

Place your hands over your heart to self-heal, bring into your thought world problems that make you feel angry, fearful, powerless, sad or any other negative feeling.

While you are thinking of these situations continue to visualise OM symbols surrounding and filling you with healing light…
The situations will start to fade in the face of OM.
Practise this method regularly to keep your energy centred and stable in the face of World troubles.
OM is symbolises the oneness that we are and connects you to it…

OM also…
OM purifies, protects, seals and stabilises the Aura…
OM opens the crown chakra…
When drawn above ones head, OM opens a pathway to God and Higher consciousness…
Work with OM wherever and whenever you would work with the Master Symbols.
OM does come into treatments often, work with it happily if it comes into your mind…
It is beautiful to fill a room with the energy of OM – send OM symbols into the space, with other Reiki symbols if you like – excellent for groups of people.
It is equally healing to visualise OM in your mind spaces where groups of people come into your thoughts, while you’re sending Reiki or just thinking (or being forced to think (i.e. news pictures)) about the World.

2004-04-20T11:53:00.000-07:00

I heard a fella on T.V. the other day grumbling about 'New Agers' not being one religion or the other...he had a real problem with people not fitting into exact established categories. Well I've got a name for those people who prefer to find their own way to Spiritual Understanding, neo-gnostics will do for now.

There is no problem at all with people exploring some of the best bits of some ancient understandings and putting them together to give an amalgamation of wisdom which suits modern humans. Modern humans are confident enough to make up their own minds about formal established rules and regulations forced on them by those who claim to be able to get close to 'God'.
It should be remembered that much ancient wisdom was frowned upon by the 'churches' down the centuries and people were forced into majority religions by threats of violence and higher taxes in some places. Once in, the big threat of hellfire kept them in place. The ancient understandings of herbalism and treelore, for instance, eventually became taboo at the direction of the church.
It hasn't been made common knowledge that the hellfire bit in the Bible was actually written by a load of fanatices in Rome a few hundred years after Jesus died, and the symbolism within the book of Revelation actually relates to Rome, the city, itself.

There is no reason on earth to believe that the those who wrote the current 'Holy Books', and those who dictate to others according to what they interpret within those books, have got it right yet. Even given the authenticity of some of the origins of the stories, the way to Spiritual Wholeness or Heaven or Paradise is a still matter of interpretation; ask three people from three different religions.

It's interesting that given the chance, people stopped going to formal churches throughout the seventies and eighties and then began looking for spiritual understanding in a less formal guise.

While Reiki is not a religion; there are no rules or regulations and the practitioner or receiver does not have to be 'good' to receive it, it is still a link to an energy which feels good, heals hurts, relaxes the mind and in the long term improves the quality of life. It does this by helping to build the confidence to lift the spirit, it helps the practitioner to value themselves...not see themselves as worthless sinners or humble humans.

How sad that humans for all their abilities to create for themselves amazing lifestyles - wings, wheels and communications as fast as telepathy, for instance, - have been conditioned to think of themselves as sinners or humble...because this way of keeping the consciousness in a low place has also left within them, in a very deep place, an insecurity.

This insecurity is the basis of fear and hatred, through mistrust, and it's from this insecure perspective that leaders will attack other leaders, even in the 21st Century - when men have wings, wheels and can communicate as fast as telepathy - they are still at war with each other, they are still trying to build around themselves wealth which they believe is the answer to stability, and they are still prepared to war on anyone or anything that threatens that stability.

It's interesting that the most popular religions currently are the most insecurity based ones...even more interesting that the more judgemental a religion believes God to be, the more judgmental the people of that religion are...

There are those who believe all is within the Great Plan of Things and things are as they should be right now, it's true that humans are only now beginning to have confidence to let themselves think for themselves and only in the last few decades has it been accepted to question authority so maybe in the past humans needed to be held in place by the threats of hell etc.

In the past, reincarnation was banned by the church, who obviously awarded themselves the right to do so, because they thought it would be bad for humans to think they could come back in the next life and make amends for not behaving themselves in the present one. Nowadays reincarnation is a subject happily explored by people and they are able to judge the credibility of the theory themselves.

Here's an amalgamation to ponder, you can choose whether to believe it or not...

Heaven is an option on Earth at any time, and reincarnation is a fact...
so death of body just means consciousness moving on and eventually becoming the spirit of another body on Earth at some time...
that would be a good reason to start caring for the planet now wouldn't it.

2004-04-13T17:08:00.000-07:00
Reiki is learned in stages...however the real learning is in the long term healing process a practitioner goes through as their consciousness expands through a series of life lessons. The formula for Reiki was written in Sanskrit Sutras found in a Buddhist temple in Japan. The lessons learned within the Reiki experience definitely bring the Universal Student to understanding of depth akin to Buddhism, without the discipline of formal Buddhism. There's no need to do the formal learning bit, life becomes a learning but on a deeper level. Rather than coming to an understanding of humbleness, the student begins to see that valueing themselves and taking responsibility for their own thoughts, actions, wellbeing etc. is an important way towards their own spiritual liberation.
Early lessons begin to show the practitioner how emotional pain and suffering within their lives is because they 'want' things to be the way they want them. i.e. if someone is heartbroken because someone they loved has left them, the heartbreak is caused because of their wanting that person in their life...whether it suits the other person or not.
Kenzai means that each step is taken after the lesson of the last step is learned...Reiki lessons are learned like this, gently, once a lessons is learned, life begins the next one.
The word Reiki translates as Universal Life Force, another interpretation could be Great Spirit, from this point of view then the Great Spirit then is teacher. As the Great Spirit is in all living things, then all life within the sphere of a Reiki students life and beyond is potentially there to help them learn the next lesson!